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Reading Hollywood

Spaces and Meanings in American Film

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This book examines the treatment of space and narrative in a selection of classic films including My Darling Clementine , It's a Wonderful Life , and Vertigo . Deborah Thomas employs a variety of arguments in exploring the reading of space and its meaning in Hollywood cinema and film generally. Topics covered include the importance of space in defining genre (such as the necessity of an urban landscape for a gangster film to be a gangster film); the ambiguity of offscreen space and spectatorship (how an audience reads an unseen but inferred setting), and the use of spatially disruptive cinematic techniques such as flashback to construct meaning.

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Reading Hollywood, Deborah Thomas

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Erscheinungsdatum
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Titel
Reading Hollywood
Untertitel
Spaces and Meanings in American Film
Sprache
Englisch
Autor*innen
Deborah Thomas
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Einband
Paperback
Seitenzahl
144
ISBN10
1903364019
ISBN13
9781903364017
Reihe
Beschreibung
This book examines the treatment of space and narrative in a selection of classic films including My Darling Clementine , It's a Wonderful Life , and Vertigo . Deborah Thomas employs a variety of arguments in exploring the reading of space and its meaning in Hollywood cinema and film generally. Topics covered include the importance of space in defining genre (such as the necessity of an urban landscape for a gangster film to be a gangster film); the ambiguity of offscreen space and spectatorship (how an audience reads an unseen but inferred setting), and the use of spatially disruptive cinematic techniques such as flashback to construct meaning.